By the Grace of God we’re all saved.
Returned to wholeness from brokenness.
A wretched soul that each of us is.
Notwithstanding, he watches over us.
Dispensing healing by his mighty powers.
Overlooking all our weaknesses.
Not focusing on our... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 156 Views added 1 day ago
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PREFACE:
“Double, double, toil and trouble.
Let our passions burn and bubble.
From this dust and soil of stubble.
Cleanse us now of all the rubble.”
The value of metaphysical poetry
is immeasurable;
beyond any human estimate or gauge.
Its... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 165 Views added 17 days ago
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The River Cannot Go Back: A Parable
“The River Cannot Go Back,”
declared once the mystic and poet,
Lebanese-American Kahlil Gibran.
author of “The Prophet,” a dreamer.
By observing the movements of rivers,
this mystic and poet, this... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 575 Views added 20 days ago
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“All the world’s a stage,”
the Bard emphatically declared.
“And all the men and women…
merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances.
And one man in his time plays many parts…
His acts being seven ages…”
We, all of us, like... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 313 Views added 21 days ago
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Reflecting on art,
while reflecting on his own life,
Swiss psychiatrist,
the eminent Carl Gustav Jung,
expressed this of poetry:
“Poets create from
the very depths of
the Collective Unconscious,
voicing aloud what others dream.”
This he... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 211 Views added 26 days ago
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In all of Life’s forms
the unconscious state is primary.
At state of one’s ‘birth’
it ‘materializes,’
transformed into ‘consciousness.’
Life is a cycle,
operating in two states:
The ‘Potential’ state,
as potential energy,
existing in... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 229 Views added 1 month ago
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God’s dwelling place is everywhere.
And everywhere is God’s dwelling place.
We cannot escape God.
The architect of our consciousness.
Since for mankind God is omniscient,
our conscience in all its varied forms
must be God’s innermost... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 370 Views added 1 month ago
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We meet the Divine
encountering our unconscious.
We make our choices
facing the Adversary
while encountering the Good.
That is Genesis
of all human religions.
The unconscious realm
providing the impetus
for spiritual values.
A supreme... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 336 Views added 1 month ago
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Holding on to the opposites.
Body merging with the Spirit.
That is the hope for humankind.
Ever seeking after wholeness.
There came one modeling perfection.
The Sacrificial Lamb of God.
Fully as man and fully God.
He alone is without... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 142 Views added 2 months ago
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The biblical tale of Adam (Mankind) and Eve (Human Life) is the classical universal tale of the historically flawed life of humanity, of Homo Sapiens and how, through repentant admission and confession of that innate malady, mankind, while... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 49 Views added 2 months ago
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Congressional politics.
Devoid of ethics.
Is the politics of crime.
A human illness.
And crime that goes unpunished.
Congressional politics.
Gone sadly adrift.
Merely for sake of egos.
And for pompous righteousness.
Egos gone amok.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 378 Views added 3 months ago
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The maternal bond
is unlike any other;
‘tween mother and child.
So umbilically tied;
and can never be severed.
Nature upholds,
with numerous examples:
A human mother…
caressing her new-born child;
a twinkling spark in both eyes.
The... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 82 Views added 4 months ago
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All the world witnessed
The coronation of Charles;
On the sixth of May.
A ceremony
In Westminster Abbey.
Twenty Twenty Three.
By bishops ordained
As head of church and of state;
By ritual crowned.
As divine ruler.
Head of the Church... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 133 Views added 4 months ago
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Transfix yourselves on the thought
of fixity and movement.
I hope you’re moved by... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 134 Views added 5 months ago
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Unmanifest DAO affirms the truth
that wholeness is of oneness.
Ten thousand things just manifest
the nature of that Oneness.
Made of flesh that has a soul,
man sees himself divided.
“Soul and body are not two things.
They’re one; always... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 323 Views added 5 months ago
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Fixity and movement
are akin to time and space;
energy kinetic and potential.
Now resting, now acting,
The coupling of time and space,
in infinite pose of dancing.
Yin-yang motion of energy,
in rhythmic cyclic dancing;
DAO coupling of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 59 Views added 5 months ago
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The thought that lingers, will not rest,
of man, and of man’s true nature.
Man outwards bent, resisting inwards,
the source of his true nature.
Not finding clarity without,
man fears turning inwards towards Self;
the healing Self he must... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 348 Views added 5 months ago
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The search for wholeness is the search
of modern man; the quest,
to regain knowledge of the Divine Self;
and remove his Edenic stain; his blemish.
To become a faithful child of God
in a Promised Land, with hope renewed;
to benefit from grace... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 373 Views added 5 months ago
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What is it that makes women so special
Or, even to some men, so ‘dangerous;’
Men, insecure in their own masculinity,
Aghast, when secure women succeed;
Not remembering their mothers who bore them;
Kept them, securely, from harm’s way; nurturing... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 129 Views added 5 months ago
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The thought that lingers perpetually,
is quest of man to know himself:
the ontology of his beginnings;
of his descent and his ascent;
of his being and his becoming.
This quest itself holds man in dread;
of thought of his fragile existence;
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 379 Views added 5 months ago
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Man, by nature, is philosophical;
a lover of his own nature;
probing his self by reason; to know himself;
descending into his spiritual Self;
into the bottomless pit of his soul.
Probing the appetites of what nourishes his roots;
of what... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 364 Views added 5 months ago
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The thought that lingers will not rest.
Nor dare it ever sleep
from constant dread; from constant fear
of never ever waking up
from its unknown profundity.
The thought that holds me prisoner,
as lingering, persistent thought,
is that which... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 357 Views added 5 months ago
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To those who course the netherworld,
with Bardo trust and faithfulness,
a measured means of recompense,
must dutifully be prescribed
for this alembic journey of the liminal.
Alembic journey is that of invocation;
a summoning of the alembic ... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 344 Views added 6 months ago
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The sun will rise and give us light;
a daunting light.
But this light can offend.
If we embrace its strength,
its light becomes the dark.
Does thought then come from darkened space?
What, pray tell me, is its source;
since darkness is a... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 321 Views added 6 months ago
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Marriage union
is union of spirit.
The union of two,
in Holy Communion,
sanctified by the spirit.
It is a binding
both holy and secular:
two people as one,
sworn publicly by their vows
of in-dividuation.
To be bound as one,
conjoined... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 367 Views added 6 months ago
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MY PETITION:
Bind me as servant
Royally as soldier
Ordained now as Pastor
To serve you with compassion
Honoring your precious love
Expecting nothing
Receiving all with kindness
Giving all freely
Each soul, dispense your mercy
Reminded... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 364 Views added 6 months ago
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Wholeness is our goal,
not striving for perfection;
which is the divine.
Wholeness for our fulfillment;
for our earthly completion.
As Saint Paul once said,
on reflection of his life;
he fought the good fight,
and indeed finished the race;... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 328 Views added 6 months ago
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I straddle worlds of the Betwixt
and the Between,
forever pulled within;
yet striving to be out,
from darkness without light.
And fearful of the brilliance
of nothingness,
of thought that has no thought,
and light that does not see,
I... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 242 Views added 6 months ago
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Our Blue Planet Earth.
Our blue watery planet.
Our Blue-Gold Planet.
Water, water everywhere.
Unsafe for some to drink it.
The state of water.
Water, water everywhere.
Unfiltered water.
Unsafe for one to drink it.
Filled with filthy... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 133 Views added 6 months ago
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Ever-changing form,
how so transitory … art,
as a depiction
of our reflection of life;
and of what is ‘beautiful.’
As psychiatrist,
Carl Jung made observations
about our Worldview;
how art has modified it;
how wars transmogrify it.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 346 Views added 6 months ago
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A Taoist Wildflower,
in a cultivated field,
standing bravely, ever firmly;
observing nature’s offerings,
unsullied by pretenses of human imagery.
A Taoist Wildflower,
standing upright, towering beauty,
with barest essentials;
enough to... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 333 Views added 6 months ago
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Emissary of the underworld
Lord of celestial darkness
Inchoate master of disguises
Enveloping the imagination
Zaddik the Priest to forgotten saints
Ennobling their ancient epiphanies
Rejuvenating rootless rituals…
Purveyor of unwanted... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 335 Views added 6 months ago
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GNOTHI SEAUTON !
If those who guide your being say to you:
“Behold, the kingdom is in the heaven,”
then the birds of the sky will precede you;
if they say to you: “It is in the sea,”
then the fish will precede you.
But the kingdom is at your... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 241 Views added 6 months ago
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All the opposites
spring from the very same source.
Neither superior;
differing only in name.
The Gate to All Mystery.
A DAOIST thought:
“The Gate to All Mystery
lies deep within us,
connecting the opposites;
in harmony and balance.”
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 332 Views added 6 months ago
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Life in the balance:
Here I am at Double Tree.
Hilton Residence.
Reflecting on life’s values…
After devastating loss.
A raging fire,
taking hold of property,
devastating household;
in balance, human lives saved;
thanks to a merciful God.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 359 Views added 6 months ago
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The nature of shock,
how it affects to the core,
when it is sudden,
and without any warning;
recovery found in God’s... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 332 Views added 6 months ago
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Our Redeeming God
is director of our lives,
giving us choices
at every single moment,
serving as Sanctifier.
Our Redeeming God,
for special use or purpose,
to make us holy,
is He who sets us apart
to be His holy vessels.
Our Resident... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 357 Views added 6 months ago
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DEUS is Supreme.
All bow down before His throne.
O, Thou Might... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 327 Views added 6 months ago
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DAO as archetype,
is bereft of counterpart.
These eighteen stanzas,
as words, cannot express it.
They serve only as template.
DAO has no need.
DAO has no need of words.
Self-sufficiency
is the nature of DAO.
Silence is its expression.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 377 Views added 7 months ago
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Temperance is yours.
Eye of patient watchfulness.
Ready to uplift others.
Incline them to their self-worth.
Love knows no greater... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 123 Views added 7 months ago
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The tale of Genji
concerns the all that he lost;
all his love interests,
all his ten thousand lovers.
All imaging his mother.
The tale of DAO
concerns the ONE in the All.
The Universal.
The Ten Thousand Things of Life
encompassed by the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 382 Views added 7 months ago
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Posit of DAO:
Opposites resolution.
The Middle Way course.
Art of homeostasis.
For balance and... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 65 Views added 7 months ago
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DAO, as archetype,
is experienced by us,
in form, as... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 218 Views added 7 months ago
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To my Dao De Pu,
God brought you into my life,
My “Doe-Doe”... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 330 Views added 7 months ago
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And have you ever seen a bird in flight
How gracefully she soars above the trees
Leaving her roost in Winter’s blight
When Autumn leaves begin to freeze?
And have you ever seen the evening star
That jewel of the heavenly sphere
Light up the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 339 Views added 7 months ago
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Away from Center
we move to periphery
within the circle.
We cannot escape DAO,
since DAO is... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 529 Views added 7 months ago
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Great Ouroboros.
Cycle of Life, Death, Rebirth.
A Celebration.
The Feast of The LORD’s Supper.
The Alpha and... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 318 Views added 7 months ago
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Poetry of thought:
Etheree, O Etheree!
The art of writing…
Ouroboros poetry…
Revolving ‘round its center.
Poetic wonder.
Arkadelphia project.
A creation by…
Etheree Taylor Armstrong.
Delphic oracle... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 212 Views added 7 months ago
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THEME of TAO : “The emptiness of the circle ⭕️ is the fullness of its expression.”
Use of languages,
a lexicon artifact,
with syntactic rules,
and with semantic structures,
is a study by itself.
I was a teacher.
Professor of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 414 Views added 7 months ago
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Psyche of DAO
is the DAO of Psyche.
Together as One.
A metaphysical force.
Both harmoniously synced.
Psyche is Center,
our umbilical birthright.
DAO of Psyche:
“We are all Psyche’s children.
Remain faithful to DAO.”
In sync with Wu... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 232 Views added 7 months ago
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Why quote from wisdom
if we do not apply it
in our daily lives.
What is described as DAO
is beyond what is uttered.
We lead by practice.
DAO practice makes perfect.
Effortless practice.
Yin and Yang in harmony
without bragging or... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 41 Views added 7 months ago
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Our tragic hero,
he, made of much sterner stuff,
by pride now fallen,
yet loved by many as hero,
and by God as his own child.
A Prince of Denmark,
by all accounts, a hero,
so loved by Ophelia;
and a man of noble birth…
both destined for... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 698 Views added 7 months ago
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I think of TAO.
Its essence leaves me awestruck.
The WAY of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 40 Views added 7 months ago
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[Dao is The Way.
path to the awakening
of our true nature;
the opposites united,
In harmony and balance.]
Master Laozi,
‘Philosopher of Ages,’
author of the Dao De Jing,
You are a quantum wonder,
not erased by time or space.
Your... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 578 Views added 7 months ago
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To be, or not to be,
That is not the question.
Life offers us no choices.
To become, or not to become,
Our choice makes all the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 334 Views added 7 months ago
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TAO has no scale.
Here now and forever more.
Eternal presence.
Timed and yet timeless.
A numinous wonderment.
Open and yet always... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 334 Views added 7 months ago
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A school’s royal wealth
Lived through a saintly Father
By the grace of God
Empowering to succeed
Recipients of bounty:
Teachers and students
Under God’s authority
Striving to serve Him.
Made in His royal image
And by His ordination.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 366 Views added 8 months ago
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Strange humor of dreams.
Charles Simic’s resurrected.
I ponder on Life.
And ‘crucifixion’ appears…
While dreaming at 3... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 414 Views added 8 months ago
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[“Life is of Spirit; and Spirit is of Love.”]
Life is of Spirit.
Spirit gives All — Life.
All come from Spirit.
Spirit is — The Source.
Life’s metaphysics:
A God-given Truth.
All Life is sacred;
All — born or un-borne.
Those seen or... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 189 Views added 8 months ago
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Meandering through the passage of time,
A prophet and seer among us.
Resilient in the quest to find peace;
To broken souls, bring them healing.
Intransigent goal to elevate those
Needing their spirits uplifted.
Leaving none out — including... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 391 Views added 8 months ago
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A. Introduction: The Lord Calls Samuel (1 Samuel 3:10, Hebrew Bible)
ויבא יהוה ויתיצב ויקרא כפעם בפעם שמול שמול ויאמר שמול דבר כי שמע עבדף
(way-ya-bo Yah-weh way-yit-yas-sab way-yiq-ra ke-pa-am be-pa-am she-mu-el, she-mu-el way-yo-mer... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 277 Views added 8 months ago
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Descent and ascent,
human search to know ‘The Self,’
journey of ego,
is archetypal journey
into The Great Unconscious.
Journey of ego,
as reflection of Psyche,
creates its own spark,
serving as a bright lantern
in cultural mythic realms.... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 406 Views added 8 months ago
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The chamber of ICE,
so unpleasantly outed,
was utterly shocked
by heaven’s bolt of lightning,
that made her EYES turn... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 125 Views added 8 months ago
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All cut from the same wool.
All telling a yarn.
All a teller’s work of art.
All an artist’s masterpiece.
Nature of archetypes.
Imagined — not seen.
‘Seen’ — only in various forms.
Archetypal images.
Revealed in ancient myths.
Exposed in... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 653 Views added 9 months ago
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A nascent mind unfolding.
Filled with awe and wonder;
Of the composition of the universe.
And its secrets needing exploration.
And so a small child wonders.
Perked with combustible energy,
To survey Earth’s cornucopia;
And to open Pandora’s... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 104 Views added 9 months ago
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Often, at nighttime,
I enter Jukurrpa world.
The world of dreaming.
Dreamers’ native residence;
Eternal — uncreated.
Like world of Tao,
It appears as ‘un-carved block.’
Unsullied nature.
Its complexity hidden
In simplicity of form.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 495 Views added 9 months ago
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We are artisans.
Artisans of our own souls.
We are root makers.
We are rooted to the ground.
Rooted — for elevation.
We are so rooted.
We are rooted to the ground.
With entangled roots.
So umbilically tied;
To our nourisher— the Earth.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 255 Views added 9 months ago
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Consider this, friend:
The journey of the human race
For each one of us;
Bourne out of a mother’s womb;
Destined to live our own lives.
Consider this, friend:
Imprint it on your own mind.
You are God’s creature.
Designed for His sole... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 363 Views added 9 months ago
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Alone on the couch, one body entombed.
Nearby, a partner, fully groomed.
Each gifted innately, with autonomous mind.
Each seeking friendship, and to be kind.
Each no longer looking, askance and behind,
Each now fully ready, to honor their... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 385 Views added 9 months ago
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Courage over Fear,
with ripples of Hopefulness;
and Love over Hate:
The potion of goodwill cheer
for social change with justice.
Lifelong legacy
of Robert F. Kennedy
for social justice
and human rights equity;
as an American dream.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 64 Views added 9 months ago
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Without a word, the pompous muse
He set aside and understood:
From such a withered branch he chose;
To hang thereby his doctoral hood.
He knew when fools were laid to rest,
Honor and tears would yet abound.
And that of all fruits, the very... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 400 Views added 9 months ago
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If Life is a dream,
then death is Awakening;
darkness turned to... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 266 Views added 9 months ago
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A poetic quest.
Psychological dream quest.
The SELF united.
Both ‘Conscious’ and ‘Unconscious,’
To restore all to fullness.
Two Strange Bedouins.
Foreigners to each other.
By blood — related.
Yet, by interests — divided.
The ONE — of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 381 Views added 10 months ago
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Two strange bedfellows.
The Conscious and Unconscious.
Courting each other.
Teleological goal:
To unite the two as... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 368 Views added 10 months ago
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Atlantic Slave Trade.
Genesis of “The White Race.”
A social construct.
Of division and conquest.
Now accepted as “THE NORM.”
For subjugation.
By European gentry.
Of other peoples.
Labeled as “Minorities.”
To claim they are their masters.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 350 Views added 10 months ago
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A newly-found world.
Outside our solar system.
An exoplanet.
Three hundred light years away.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 336 Views added 10 months ago
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A PARABLE (Prequel)
“I PICKED a rustic nosegay lately,
And bore it homewards, musing greatly;
When, heated by my hand, I found
The heads all drooping tow’rd the ground.
I plac’d them in a well-cool’d glass,
And what a wonder came to pass;
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 372 Views added 10 months ago
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All dangerous signs
Nations must take notice of
And be prepared to counter.
Authoritarianism.
How it festers as a poison.
As a bed partner
Of hegemonic ruling
It is dangerous.
To various forms of freedom.
Oriented towards ego.
Utterly... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 582 Views added 10 months ago
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A river thrives with its tributary,
To pursue and course its destiny.
Unwaveringly obedient to its cause;
Earnestly it flows by nature’s laws.
All rivers bend, mustered with flush,
O’er rocky pathways, they will gush.
Flowing sometimes... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 352 Views added 10 months ago
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Do not be flustered if you find,
This poem challenges the mind.
To question what is false or real;
To know the truth, beyond the pale.
Finding ways to bring together,
Vagrant lives, all as a tether.
Binding each, though far or near;
Yoked... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 343 Views added 10 months ago
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Irony of Time.
The ways we humans see it.
How it is measured.
In so many different ways.
During the human lifespan.
When we are children.
Just starting out our lifespan.
A day seems quite short.
But a year — forever long.
As if it would... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 755 Views added 11 months ago
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The Tale of Genji
Reveals the life of women
Men stoop to conquer.
Yet by irony,
And by men’s genuflection,
They — become conquered.
Art of seduction,
Fashioned by Adam’s soulmate,
Makes folly of men.
Genji — like Adam,
Seeks after... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 866 Views added 11 months ago
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The pastor as shepherd of all his flock
Must govern with diligence.
With faith and with trust in God as his rock;
Ever seeking His presence.
Beware of deceits that lead to defeat;
Movement away from the fold.
Temptations find ways, their... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 405 Views added 11 months ago
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The poetic mind
Gravitates in synchrony
With planets... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 350 Views added 11 months ago
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GW ORI.
New Dawn of Enlightenment.
Triple Sun... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 149 Views added 11 months ago
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On the Supreme Court
Nine black robes of justice
Seated as Council
By Congressional ruling.
By their just proclamation.
On the Supreme Court
Nine black robes of justice.
Just this…required,
Without causing injury…
And by jury of their... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 494 Views added 1 year ago
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Each earthly being
is like a snowflake,
unique and entire
unto itself…
now intertwining…
now commingling
in conformation
to create…
a luxurious bounty
of heavenly snow…
together…
Heaven ‘n Earth…
rejoicing…
in hymnic praise:
“I... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 538 Views added 1 year ago
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Modern pandemic:
Culture-war narrative memes.
Like ‘Transgender Rights.’
‘Critical Race Theory.’
Spawned by Social... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 634 Views added 1 year ago
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Once a prince and now a king.
The royals mourn, the people sing.
As he ascends now to the throne.
He wears upon his brows a frown.
Elizabeth the queen, his mum.
Now laid to rest amidst the hum.
To join ancestors who have passed.
Their... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 566 Views added 1 year ago
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THE ABSENCE
The absence of a father is sine qua non,
His children enquiring with wondering eyes,
From the rising sun marking day has begun,
To the twilight light shining in evening skies.
Asking their mom, “When will daddy come;
When will... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 743 Views added 1 year ago
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The sine qua non.
Energy unlimited.
Ever evolving.
No beginning or ending.
The mystery of life... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 461 Views added 1 year ago
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On Lake Inle, in a small motorboat,
in Nyaungshwe Township.
There — on a freshwater lake,
in lovely Shan State,
nested in magestic Shan Hills …
There — I’m ferried by local fishermen
on cool freshwater at 2,900 feet.
It’s early Winter and... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 454 Views added 1 year ago
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Dearest comrade of this natural world.
Observe the order of the universe.
Created not by human hands, but by spirit.
Transforming all that which is temporary.
Oh, dearest comrade, meditate on your treasure.
Receive that which invites... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 534 Views added 1 year ago
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An olive branch passed.
As token of unity.
A peace offering.
By monarch King Charles the Third.
A Royal Dispensation.
The House of Windsor.
By Commonwealth Nations linked.
At war — and in peace.
A centurion’s history.
Together — their... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 492 Views added 1 year ago
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Creator of The Ape Man
Lord of the Jungle
Tarzan — the name means ‘White Skin’
Overseer of Africa.
This American
Burrowed in his native land
Tarred and asphalted
Paved an exotic landscape
Forested by animals.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 921 Views added 1 year ago
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The Divine at work
As ‘Collective Unconscious’
Source of all knowledge
Pondered by philosophers
Goldmine of psychiatry.
Poets have probed it
Like Keats, Shelley and others
All remain puzzled
Even as I am today
The Mystery of All... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 1,039 Views added 1 year ago
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Notices from the underworld
“Strident active imagination”
A psychoanalyst may call them
Visitations that come my way
As psychic forces with their energies.
They come at various moments
Meme-like images in many forms
Shapeshifters dangling... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 559 Views added 1 year ago
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Umbilically
Earthbound, heavenly centered
Milky Way anchored
A Copernicus finding
Of heliocentrism.
Our solar system
Created from gas and dust
Called “The Milky Way”
The planets aligned with us
We have stardust in our veins.
A global... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 542 Views added 1 year ago
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Our solar system.
Created from gas and dust.
How did it arise?
The planets aligned with us.
An alchemical... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 252 Views added 1 year ago
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A House divided
Is what America is
Government ruling
By partisan politics
“House divided cannot... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 473 Views added 1 year ago
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Beehive B-flat z’s
The chords of B’s are humming…
The drones’ symphony.
Their Queen Bee’s Composition…
Now abuzz in my waxed ears.
Follicles of (h)air
Swaying in my ears…
By an hornet’s pitch.
Pitched B-flat major…
Tympanic motif.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 810 Views added 1 year ago
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A global journey
Traversing the Milky Way
Our seatbelts fastened
By Earth’s magnetic impulse
We — intrepid... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 622 Views added 1 year ago
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‘Schroedinger’s Cat’ and
Quantum Relativity.
Thought experiment.
Both in superposition.
An imaginary state.
The mind’s behavior.
On the nature of Being.
And of Time itself.
Overlapping in its space.
An existential problem.
Human... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 646 Views added 1 year ago
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Consider this thought
And its ramifications
Humans like machines
As autonomous systems
Robotic Homo Sapiens.
That our emotions
Are somewhat automated
As mere “behaviors”
Intelligence created
Like artificial systems.
How human are we
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 392 Views added 1 year ago
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Casualty of war
Our innocence demolished
Lost, stolen, buried
Sacrificed by rampant greed
Revealing sinful natures.
A child’s voice cries out
Hearkening us to listen
Pleading for mercy
Begging to end this madness
That takes the lives of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 454 Views added 1 year ago
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Prostrate before you
Kyrie Eleison
Have mercy, O LORD
We all have fallen astray
Kyrie Eleison.
Mortal are our sins
Kyrie Eleison
Behaving like gods
With mockery and with contempt
Kyrie Eleison.
Eden abandoned
Kyrie Eleison
“New... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 467 Views added 1 year ago
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Time is relative
At the north and the south poles
Eyed by the viewer
It’s observer-dependent
In a global universe.
It can be zero
Or any other hour
For Block Universe
A circular argument
Simply name it as ‘The... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 436 Views added 1 year ago
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Lines of Longitude
They all converge at the poles
Globally as One
In a field of Space and Time
Described as quantum physics.
Lines of Latitude
All spaced at fifteen degrees
Globally diverge
And thus are separated
Three hundred sixty... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 271 Views added 1 year ago
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Dangerous movement
Dissolution of marriage
Marxist in nature
In its public overture
Disguised as social... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 299 Views added 1 year ago
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West embraces East,
as a child to a teacher;
each to the other.
The path to TAO
is the path of completion;
which leads to wholeness.
East embraces West,
as a child seeking wisdom;
the wisdom of TAO.
Suffer then children
to lead and... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 206 Views added 1 year ago
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Nations rise and nations fall
All struggling for greatness
None is found without default
All have weaknesses and strengths.
The paths that lead to greatness
Are not without suffering
The journey of America
Follows similar outcomes.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 194 Views added 1 year ago
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Awe of lightning bolt.
Wow! resounds the thunderclap.
Earth’s people... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 258 Views added 1 year ago
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Are you what you are
Because of your own choices
By your own default
By your own circumstances
Without the aid of others?
Are you what you are
Not ever needing others
Just your own master
An island unto yourself
A righteous, pompous... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 159 Views added 1 year ago
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Donald Duck’s at it again
Strutting proudly up and down
His voice squeaks out with a quack
In a way to make some frown.
This cartoon clown is for real
Bedecked with his yellow gear
His speech miscarriages Justice
Quite mischievously, I... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 529 Views added 1 year ago
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My Lord and Master
At Gethsemane He prayed
Urgent the hour
Rejoicing while others wept
In place of us He marched on
Christ our Lord and King
Expecting what awaited.
In service to God
Remembering the Promise
Victory at the Cross
In Him as... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 154 Views added 1 year ago
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As a refugee
Ukrainian child poet
A boy named Vova
Of Slavonic ancestry
You are born to serve others.
A soulful servant
Who will serve with poetry
With words that bring hope
The poetry of freedom
Of liberty from bondage.
Lady Liberty ... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 347 Views added 1 year ago
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The Hebrew Language
It is a boustrophedon
Aleph as leader
Father of All that follows
Pointing to the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 318 Views added 1 year ago
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Before there was Light
Everything was all Darkness
Repelling Reason
Enlightenment still hidden
Silence symbol of Wisdom
Her Knowledge resting
In quietude of Oneness
The Art of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 430 Views added 1 year ago
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Breathing oxygen,
Much more like an animal;
And yet so plant-like.
Having a fleshy body;
That searches for its own food.
It is nutritious.
For lovers with gourmet taste;
Quite a meaty dish.
For some, aphrodisiac;
For others, deadly... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 544 Views added 1 year ago
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At war with ourselves
Ego as the Mastermind
Battling our psyche
The soul now wounded by a
Self-inflicted malady.
Selah: Pause of Contemplation
Hubris of I-ness
Genetic Achilles Heel
To make us falter
With bloated anxieties
To think... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 587 Views added 1 year ago
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Hermetic Treatise
Known as The Perfect Discourse
The Asclepius
Guided by aphorisms
Treasure trove of information
With declaration
God as Craftsman of All Things
As The Great Healer
Who pervades the universe
And has Jesus to serve... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 513 Views added 1 year ago
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At eighty seven
My dreams are just beginning
To be a poet
Urged by sprites of the psyche
To share with you this message:
“Life starts from within
The Sanctuary of Hope
At a Temenos
A place of security
Buried deep within the Self.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 496 Views added 1 year ago
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Jungians name it
As Individuation
As Self-becoming
A state of becoming whole
Ultimate goal of psyche.
Christians name it
Becoming a “New Person”
A turning around
Saul, now transformed as Saint Paul
On the road to Damascus.
We... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 580 Views added 1 year ago
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A double entendre
In the Jamaican language:
A Jah wah mek Yah.
It is God who made Himself.
And it’s He who made you... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 443 Views added 1 year ago
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Language dresses Truth
Which has no need of clothing.
Beware ye of words
Bearing gifts of deception.
Silence has its... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 594 Views added 1 year ago
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Enter all who seek His Love
Let Him prepare The Way
Into His house come sit
Make merry your thirsty soul
A kindly ear will listen
Lest you are troubled, friend
Let Him receive your plea
In prayer the Lord responds
Accept His Grace and... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 305 Views added 1 year ago
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Lest we forget
Lest we seek not to remember
The scourge of slavery
Haunting, taunting, everywhere
Like bold demons of the underworld
Risen from cavernous dwellings
Let us have our consciences pricked.
Lest we forget
All those laws and... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 347 Views added 1 year ago
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Wisdom of DAO:
Contraction is addition
and not subtraction.
Weakness in its full balance
defeats the hubris of strength.
Read now from DAO.
Read from chapter thirty six —
Knowledge of balance:
All things in moderation
bring harmony to... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 615 Views added 1 year ago
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I need no cell phone
When I’m living in the zone,
Flying in the sky,
Way above the clouds — so high.
Liberated — free to fly.
Prisons with their bars,
May as well be doors ajar.
I come and I go.
In my heart, I know that’s so.
No chains... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 269 Views added 1 year ago
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Biblical untruth:
“Replacement Theology”
Of “Old Testament”
With “New Testament” Scriptures
Is patently incorrect.
Misleading schism
Of the Bible’s unity,
Written as a whole
With Divine Authority —
And with all of it God-breathed.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 414 Views added 1 year ago
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Ego left unyoked
To psyche as its center
Is... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 541 Views added 1 year ago
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Time flies with no wings
In space with no boundaries
Paired, though never... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 402 Views added 1 year ago
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The love of my life:
The treasure of poetry
A dream come true
Bearing sacred messages
From the depths of the psyche
The love of my life:
The poets of yesteryear
Now brought back to life
Like Shakespeare, Milton, and Scott
Like Shelley,... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 527 Views added 1 year ago
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A CONFESSION:
As we approach the close of our earthly lives, a modicum of wisdom can be obtained when we come to the realization of an ironic and sober sensibility, when we come to the recognition that our earthly achievements, accomplishments, and... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 800 Views added 1 year ago
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Words as a kernel
The proverbs of poetry
As a healing balm
As cures for our deceptions
Our wounds and our injuries
As a mustard seed
Feeble and frail to begin
That needs nurturing
With tender loving kindness
Blooming majestically
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 1,468 Views added 1 year ago
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A child shares with an adult
his view of the world …
and the adult —
who is perceptive and receptive,
finds in his own ignorance,
in his eternal state of wonderment,
a new birth …
expressively a rebirth …
the cycle of life —
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 204 Views added 1 year ago
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A palindrome play on words
Bounties of the brain
Leaving us to ponder
Each line imploding meaning
Where you have to search
All that there dwells within
Such is the mind of mankind
It has a design
Eking compositions
Rich with strophic... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 350 Views added 1 year ago
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Solar phallic force
Penetrating Mother Earth
Impregnating her
Of which we are her children
Her Collective Consciousness.
Solar phallic force
Genetically grounded
In human psyche
As our true heredity
Our Collective Unconscious.
Sun as... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 215 Views added 1 year ago
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The biblical tales:
Orality of the tongue.
Power of the Word
To transform humanity
And return it to... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 275 Views added 1 year ago
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A brazen attack
On the U.S. Capitol
January sixth
A day etched in infamy
To abort the people’s... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 456 Views added 1 year ago
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“Born Again” — is the
Aim of Christian teaching:
Return to Wholeness;
Union with the Spirit—
The quest of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 519 Views added 1 year ago
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Dear children of God:
Each one of you is special,
Made in His image,
Created, and so fashioned,
In the way He desired.
Gifted with language;
Each with a special tongue
For your expressions.
And all of them beautiful—
With Him as the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 513 Views added 1 year ago
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Our life is a loop
When we think of nothing else
But only our ego;
Going around in circles
To return and to haunt us.
So life is a loop
That takes us all in circles;
Repeating our ills
With all our misadventures,
And without... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 463 Views added 1 year ago
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The world endangered
By an unstable statesman.
His name is Putin.
A deployer of darkness.
His habitat — Inferno.
Ukraine is mere ploy
For some deeper engagement
By this mad leader
To seize absolute power
And claim himself dictator.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 313 Views added 1 year ago
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Call it pandemic.
Pandemic of Pandemic!
Man of flesh and blood.
Bartering with unknown realms.
His body, soul, and spirit.
Call it pandemic.
Our genders determined.
No more by nature.
But by our own selves.
We are what we say we are.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 711 Views added 1 year ago
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The Moving Finger,
Having writ, moves on, therewith
Inscribing onwards
An unfolding epilogue
With all of us as players.
Having entrances.
Placed on a stage we call Life.
With our acts measured.
As we strut backwards and fro.
The Moving... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 964 Views added 1 year ago
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A disease rages.
Called SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Pandemic illness.
And all the world is tired.
After three years of horror.
Where is remedy
To stem the plague of mankind
And the injuries
To human souls and bodies,
Their spirits seeking... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 323 Views added 1 year ago
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Posed in a picture frame
Portrait of an artist
Inquisitively fixed
Focused, reading a book
Silhouette of silence
Vested in red jacket
Knees crossed to hold her frame
Adorned, with boots of comfort
Befitting a maiden
Astride a wicker... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 1,000 Views added 1 year ago
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Federal funding
For gun violence research
Must be optimized
To reduce death by gunfire,
A viscous crime that... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 189 Views added 1 year ago
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Love must be sincere.
According to Romans Twelve.
Verses nine to twelve.
Love must despise all hatred.
Honor others above self.
Love must be zealous.
Of spiritual fervor.
Without jealousy.
Joyful in hope — and patient.
Ever faithful in... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 470 Views added 1 year ago
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Everyone is called.
At beckoning of Spirit.
But only few hear.
Only few like Samuel.
Will listen and will... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 450 Views added 1 year ago
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The ultimate goal
Destined for humanity,
Is to know one’s Self,
Called Individuation.
Self restored — to God’s... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 450 Views added 1 year ago
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The Christian pledge
Made as a priority
Is to put God first
Before all other matters
In fellowship and... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 536 Views added 1 year ago
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JAH, JAH — Jamaica.
A JAH wah mek Jamaica.
Giv tanks an preiziz.
Outa meni, WAN piipl.
A JAH wah mek Jamaica.
Lord, God, Jamaica.
To God, who made Jamaica.
Give thanks and praises
Out of many — ONE.
To God, who made... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 323 Views added 1 year ago
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Of all forces, the
Highest form of energy,
Above all others,
Divinely superior,
Is love of God for mankind.
It defeats hatred,
Jealousies of all natures.
It has much patience —
Greater than all human faith.
Steadfast and unwavering.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 255 Views added 1 year ago
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Recycle love and
It multiplies joyfully
With healing powers.
Recycle hatred
And it wounds with much... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 331 Views added 1 year ago
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When war is waging
And no one trusts each other,
First casualty
That aborts the hope of peace
Is Truth — falsified by... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 493 Views added 1 year ago
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Two peas in a pod:
Individuation and
Being “born again.”
Together — separated.
By discernment, seen as... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 433 Views added 1 year ago
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Told in just five lines,
A Tanka verse is compact,
Not too long at all,
Keeping it very simple,
As a poetic art... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 321 Views added 1 year ago
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I am good at it.
Intellectual rubbish.
Don’t ever quote me.
Unseemly Tanka poet.
Besmirched by lines not... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 436 Views added 1 year ago
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Imagine this now:
Without the Non-physical
Having existence,
Nothing could ever exist.
That is plain metaphysics.
Singularity.
Is another expression
Of all energy
That is potential for Life
Of “Big Bang” made kinetic.
The two... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 596 Views added 1 year ago
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Nature is oneness
That governs plurality.
Singularity.
Is how it is referred to.
With respect to all matter.
All space and all time.
Make up all the galaxies.
Together as one.
Contracting and expanding.
Into singularity.
Singularity.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 507 Views added 1 year ago
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Where learning begins:
At the feet of the Master.
As a disciple.
To profit from the wisdom
That is garnered... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 449 Views added 1 year ago
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A place for healing.
God’s healing sanctuary.
Come, all ye faithful.
Receive your consolation.
Be healed now of all your wounds.
God bids you welcome.
Seek, and you shall find his love.
All ye who suffer.
God listens with all patience.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 402 Views added 1 year ago
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Physicist Carroll
Makes circular claims.
Argument for God
Is not a good theory
For it does not offer proofs.
Advancing logic
With a-priori thesis:
“That what lacks reason
Cannot be reasonable.
Defies the laws of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 337 Views added 1 year ago
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Is “Nothing” zero?
Some ask Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Astrophysicist.
Whether there is a nexus
Of science and religion.
Tyson denies this.
“Objective Reality”
Is what he invokes.
His scientific mantra.
“They cannot be reconciled.”
Such... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 432 Views added 1 year ago
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God as Energy.
Potential and Kinetic.
The One in the All.
The Great Singularity.
Known — and never fully known.
The measure of God.
Potential and Kinetic.
None can ever know.
The Alpha and Omega.
Set Apart — as... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 329 Views added 1 year ago
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The language mappings
Of all human languages.
A revelation:
A syntactic unity
Common to all languages.
A discovery.
What linguistic mapping shows.
Call it “Humanese.”
Language commonalities.
In all human... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 503 Views added 1 year ago
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How words change meaning:
Semantic shifts and changes
Alter our senses
With their directions — mended
Bearing new... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 523 Views added 1 year ago
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Life without meaning.
Is ever so demeaning.
It is a nightmare.
Without one’s comprehension.
A dream without vision.
Life full of meaning.
Is a life of fulfillment.
A life of purpose.
Made with obstacle courses.
Propelling us to action.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 571 Views added 1 year ago
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That there is no God.
The fool says in his hard heart.
The soul knows better.
For it is made of Spirit.
Therein is the Living... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 393 Views added 1 year ago
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Folk and fairytales.
“Innocent” nursery rhymes.
Biblical tales.
Literature — in general.
All have hidden messages.
All convey some truths.
Displayed, revealed — embellished.
Artfully portrayed.
Fancifully kept alive.
In ancient myths and... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 600 Views added 1 year ago
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A revelation.
A psychological truth.
Take it — or leave it.
This may be hard to swallow.
You are more than your body.
The skin as body.
Does not suffice for psyche.
Which is much deeper.
We elevate the body.
As if it were our own soul.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 530 Views added 1 year ago
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A query for all:
Creation and our own Mind.
The coupling of both.
Both synchronized together.
To depict “reality.”
What exists must start.
Somewhere in a distant past.
A dark “Big Bang” past.
That — remains our theory.
Life emerging from... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 395 Views added 1 year ago
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The two travelers.
In dialectical chat.
Ego and Psyche.
Ego as the extravert.
With animated speeches.
The two travelers.
Forever tied together.
Ego and Psyche.
Psyche as the introvert.
Courting her partner, Ego.
The two travelers.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 984 Views added 1 year ago
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Getting new meanings.
Psychological hindsights.
By looking backwards.
Hindbrain scans as our hindsight.
Projected onto... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 509 Views added 1 year ago
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This is a preface.
Man’s appeal for salvation.
A psalm of David.
“Search me, O Lord,” the psalm’s plea.
“For you have scrutinized me.”
Omnipotent you.
Our Collective Unconscious.
As some label you.
With archetypal robing.
Ever remaining... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 1,123 Views added 1 year ago
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There is but one God.
Universal Energy.
The Lord Almighty.
To which all nations bow down.
Beyond human differences.
There is but one race.
Universally expressed.
The race of mankind.
Seen as many, yet as one.
Beyond surface differences.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 446 Views added 1 year ago
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Speech comes naturally.
As gift of human learning.
Not artificial.
Like writing — an artifact.
Contrived — to preserve our speech.
Designed to save speech.
Writing is technology.
A human art form.
Thus, speech must be primary.
And writing... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 391 Views added 1 year ago
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If the truth be told.
Desire not to desire.
Is still desire.
It is not an uncarved block.
As TAO would inform us.
Lack of desire.
Will breed lust for desire.
The human fault line.
Yield, thus, to doing nothing.
Serenity yields wisdom.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 938 Views added 1 year ago
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Concord and discord.
The battle for perfection.
Human souls at war.
The struggle to find Wholeness.
An everlasting... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 367 Views added 1 year ago
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Rising out of dreams.
Prosodic features rising.
Parsing with numbers.
Prosodic phenomena.
With prosodic measurements.
Fibonacci ‘n.’
With dream poetic numbers.
Meter and rhythm.
In a literary form.
With such a measured beauty.
Dream... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 468 Views added 1 year ago
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The gift we call Life.
Is given us as a loan.
For us to use with Wisdom.
Given with interest.
To thereby gain some profit.
To spend it wisely.
Will garner you much Wisdom.
Earned by your patience.
To waste it with distemper.
Brings, in... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 510 Views added 1 year ago
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What we fear the most:
The depths of our underworld.
Our own weakest spot.
That which lies within our soul.
That which haunts us in our dreams.
What we fear the most:
Is part of our legacy.
It is who we are.
Our royal inheritance.
Yet... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 1,203 Views added 1 year ago
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Phonological.
Language processing schema.
Is far from “Reading.”
Without semantic input —
Deep structures... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 426 Views added 1 year ago
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Fear as messenger.
Enemy of lust for life.
How it defeats life.
How it shows no decency.
Respects no laws, conventions.
Seeks your weakest spot.
Pursues it with greatest ease.
Blinding your vision.
And your survival instincts.
A prey to... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 355 Views added 1 year ago
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A human illness.
That needs to be remedied.
Soul out of balance.
Imbalance in the psyche.
It’s cognitive... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 500 Views added 1 year ago
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A totality:
Human soul, mind, and spirit.
We call the psyche.
The totality of Self.
The Conscious and the Unconscious.
Yet showing tension.
Between these two states.
Personal and Collective.
With a core of complexes.
For psychoanalysis.
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Remember this, friend.
After all is said and done.
At your journey’s end.
Psyche always possessed you.
You are its prize... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 412 Views added 1 year ago
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The script of our lives.
Bears some things that lay hidden.
Ever unfolding.
Borne from the womb to the tomb.
Imprinted in our psyche.
The psyche — our home.
It has so many mansions.
Our home and cocoon.
Of which we are conscious.
And yet... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 519 Views added 1 year ago
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I called her hero.
A fairytale little girl.
And not heroine.
In a Wilhelm Grimm’s story.
A dissertation problem.
“What makes her hero?”
Question posed at my defense.
“Child in dark forest —
What arguments can you make.
To satisfy our... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 1,858 Views added 1 year ago
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The task and trials.
Each one of us encounters.
That is our mission.
Each one of us has to face.
Life’s journey with temptations.
Each one asked to be.
Servant of Divine Calling.
To live like Christ.
A life, when ended, to say:
“It is... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 591 Views added 1 year ago
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A postscript token.
A Fibonacci symbol.
In my dreams again.
Three women assigned numbers.
And my wife is Number 12.
12, 13, 14.
Assigned to the three women.
Fibonacci’s sign.
These three numbers, when added.
Count as Number 39.
3+9 is... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 387 Views added 1 year ago
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In sleep, a voice heard.
Articulate with pattern.
My voice — while sleeping.
Captured by my wife — awake.
While I remained in deep sleep.
She heard this pattern.
Numerical register.
Uttered during sleep.
It’s: “1-2-3:3-2-1.”
A Fibonacci... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 769 Views added 1 year ago
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Art of conjuring.
The art of transformation.
Curiosity.
Revolution of the Mind.
A psychological craft.
Sought by the sages.
Unfolding hidden secrets.
Of the human Mind.
Compelling understanding.
Of the things that are arcane.
Fires of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 528 Views added 1 year ago
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Esoterica.
My inherited dream space.
My creative haunt.
Artifice of archetypes.
Of wondrous signs and symbols.
Esoterica.
I am a native to this world.
Imaged with magic.
Mathematical symbols.
Begging interpretation.
Esoterica.
Puzzles... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 519 Views added 1 year ago
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To the Supreme Court.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Her confirmation.
Praise the Lord, America.
For His Grace and His... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 271 Views added 1 year ago
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A cardinal chain.
Holding human legacy.
Called the DNA.
Having many pioneers.
Those who have made history.
Consider Mendel.
The “Father of Genetics.”
Eighteen Sixty Six.
A new vocabulary.
“Recessive” and “Dominant.”
Eighteen Sixty... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 467 Views added 1 year ago
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Three levels of Mind.
Existing in our psyche.
According to Freud.
Psychological forces.
Interacting together.
Three different levels.
With degrees of consciousness.
First — the Preconscious.
At subliminal levels.
Yet, potentially... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 491 Views added 1 year ago
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The riddle of life:
Pictures and their negatives.
Both linked together.
One clear, unlike the other:
A person and his shadow.
The riddle of life:
The moon circling the Earth.
A friendly neighbor.
Infant nursed by its mother.
With... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 483 Views added 1 year ago
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The people mourning.
Their ancient art are removed.
Robbed, stolen, and gone.
Gone from Mother Africa.
To European countries.
Gone from Africa.
To Germany and to France.
To The Netherlands.
To The United Kingdom.
And to The United States.... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 454 Views added 1 year ago
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All linguistic roots.
At their very deepest levels.
Are with one syntax.
As Subjects that have Objects.
With God as Grammarian.
The syntax of God.
The Universal.
Is a syntax of Oneness.
In Him, with Him, and through Him.
The archetype of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 587 Views added 1 year ago
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The prisms of Life.
Starting from birth until death.
Are our projections.
Superimposed on all things.
The deeds of our existence.
The prisms of Life.
Artificial images.
Are all reflections.
Of original birthrights.
Captured by our... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 735 Views added 1 year ago
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A pulse, a heartbeat, a human breath.
The waves of the ocean.
A billowing cloud floating by.
Tree leaves blowing in the wind.
The soft mewing of a kitten, a pig’s harsh grunt.
The quacking of a caring mother duck.
The cawing of blackbirds in... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 459 Views added 1 year ago
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I beseech you all.
Pray, tell me — in honesty.
Who are we Earthlings.
Behaving as if like gods.
Rather — misbehaving folks?
With no empathy.
Miscreants of Planet Earth.
Our hearts are hardened.
Poisoning all resources —
Provisions for... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 490 Views added 1 year ago
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The Great Mystery.
How can The Part — apart from.
That which is The Whole.
Ever comprehend Wholeness.
Singularity of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 370 Views added 1 year ago
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Two score years and ten of yesterday,
You two did tie the knot:
Whereof you spun your golden thread,
And made the land fertile.
It was in Nineteen Thirty Five.
Four years before the War …
Six years after The Great Depression,
That you two... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 486 Views added 1 year ago
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Out of Many — One.
Center and Periphery.
Singularity.
The Essence of Noumenon.
The Non-perceivable Source.
Subject and Object.
Objective Phenomena.
“Adonai Echad.”
Non-duality sustained.
The voice of SHEMA declared.
The Ouroboros.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 504 Views added 1 year ago
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God is Noumenon.
Man is a phenomenon.
The image of God.
An image made as a form.
Of Him who is without form.
The image of man.
Is that made of consciousness.
The Spirit within.
Pursuing the Unconscious.
The source of his origin.
Royal... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 280 Views added 1 year ago
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Jah Rastafari.
As above, and so below.
The “Head Creator.”
Sending Jamaican prophet.
To give us Redemption Songs.
Like John the Baptist.
He came from the wilderness.
A place called Trench Town.
Singing his songs of freedom.
His sweet... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 225 Views added 1 year ago
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At the break of Spring.
Saw this creature pecking.
A Spring woodpecker.
Vested in such bright colors.
Happily pecking away.
At a tall oak tree.
That stands majestically.
Posed in my front yard.
Reaching upwards to the sky.
With its fresh... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 138 Views added 1 year ago
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Like fireflies that dance
effortlessly, majestically,
In the darkness of the night;
one moment seen.
shimmering, quivering,
In celestial brilliance.
darting back and forth,
like little watchmen.
bearing tiny green lanterns.
seen for a... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 225 Views added 1 year ago
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Sixteen Fifty Five.
Jamaica became British.
In battle captured.
From Spain who once possessed her.
Known then as Xaymaca.
“A Plain of Gold Blessed.”
In indigenous language.
So thought Columbus.
But no gold was to be found.
And Columbus... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 313 Views added 1 year ago
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From dreams I peep into the world.
Into the outer world
some call reality.
The fairy pool, its currents
ever swirling.
That magical place
filled with such vitality.
A place to sit beside
an ancient oak or pine.
A weeping willow... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 624 Views added 1 year ago
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Globalization.
Euro-American forces.
Hegemonic.
The control of resources.
Economic adventures.
Globalization.
A political world view.
Euro-Western states.
Of which NATO is a part.
Advantage — America.
Globalization.
Linguistic... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 382 Views added 1 year ago
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Ku pan demdeh piini wali a flai.
A flai ina di kai soh ai.
Ina di nait wid fidem lait.
A shain, a shain soh brait.
Mi lov fi kech piini wali iina fimi bakl.
Dat wie mi kyan wid im fi shou “takl.”
Ef yuh ebah si piini walidem a flai.
A flai... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 318 Views added 1 year ago
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I am so honored.
By the company I keep.
Birds of a feather.
My companions cheer me.
Writing their ode in verses.
In celebration.
Many languages expressed.
Much honor given.
A staff of comrades writing.
Writing their odes in verses.
It... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 210 Views added 1 year ago
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From where she sits, she sees it all.
The Queen of all the Land.
At work or play, she knows the score.
She sees all come and go.
And if you cross her, watch her step.
She misses not a trick.
For Vicky is the specialist
Of Program... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 168 Views added 1 year ago
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Compliance
Entered
Nonchalantly
Tests
Everyone’s
Resourcefulness.
Figures
Obtained
Repeatedly
By
Investigating
Ledgers
Indubitably
Necessitate
Germinating
Ubiquitous
Approaches
Letting
Educators
Discover
Unsavory ... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 435 Views added 1 year ago
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Mama, I remember:
The Dragon, The Bad Fairy.
The Princess and The Sleeper.
(And The Sleepwaker too) …
And the death of Humpty Dumpty.
As he sat upon the wall.
Mama, I remember:
The Housewife and The Formula.
And The Message to the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 447 Views added 1 year ago
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Him at the Center.
Singularity of God.
Compressed to Zero.
Property is Infinite.
His density is unknown.
His immensity.
Physicists cannot measure.
Beyond the “Big Bang.”
Having mass that’s Infinite.
Of which Life is derived.
God’s... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 370 Views added 1 year ago
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Considering all.
His “propaganda bubble.”
Must not sustain him.
Putin as warlord must fall.
The West must consolidate.
NATO as defense.
Must engage all their allies.
To holdback Russia.
The stakes of nuclear war.
Must thus be... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 157 Views added 1 year ago
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Jessica & Christopher:
(On the blessed occasion of your marriage at St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, West Indies, on the fourth day of June, in the year of the Lord, Two Thousand and
Sixteen)
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My Dear Doe-Doe, My Beloved:
With excitement …
Like a schoolgirl learning to read
for the very first time,
and for the next time;
and ever continuously,
you discover the treasures,
of this earthly planet.
and all the beautiful things
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 420 Views added 1 year ago
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The man Sigmund Freud.
All motivated by Joy.
Or the sex instinct.
Developed psychology.
Of “Great Instinctual Needs.”
And Carl Gustav Jung.
Freud’s colleague for a great bit.
Focused on “rebirth.”
Transformation of the soul.
His brand of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 464 Views added 1 year ago
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Putin and Hitler.
Two European warlords.
Birds of same feathers.
Waging dangerous warfare.
One checked, the other unchecked.
Hitler and Putin.
Both comrades in armed warfare.
Comrades to the core.
The first had his comeuppance.
Putin must... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 423 Views added 1 year ago
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A redemption song.
The voices of our people.
A redemption hymn.
Revolutionary call.
Oh, when will we ever learn?
A Baptist deacon.
Paul Bogle, Freedom Fighter.
A staunch supporter.
Morant Bay Rebellion.
Oh, when will we ever learn?
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 419 Views added 1 year ago
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Above all else, there is indeed in life
Nothing more precious or sacred than a
Godly heart reaching out to the world
Extending to every human soul, embracing it with
Love, brotherhood, fellowship
And peace; reaching out to make a human heart
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 212 Views added 1 year ago
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Soon the shrub will out …
Spring again —
The cycle of life repeating.
Image superimposed on image:
A face in a crowd reminding…
Of your face…
Of a lover’s face…
Of children’s merry faces…
Gleaming — shining brightly.
A fleeting shadow... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 498 Views added 1 year ago
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Glitch — irregular.
Temporary malfunction.
A flaw discovered.
A breakdown in the system.
Of semiotic interest!
A pulse — sign of life.
The patient is still breathing.
And recovering.
That’s “Operation Success.”
Of semiotic interest!
An... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 269 Views added 1 year ago
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Transfigured , transmogrified, transliterated.
The Word —
As “Self-Reference” …
As referent for Self…
Disguised as I/Me
Masking its hidden Self …
Here — yet somewhere else.
Bespeaks of heavy consciences.
Of timeless time …
Here now, yet... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 390 Views added 1 year ago
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In prayer and with penitence
we seek union …
with the Holy Spirit.
The Divine Heat, the Sacred Fire.
Brothers and sisters in Christ …
Therein lies the Glory of the Spirit
in every living being …
when it sees and rejoices
in the Light …
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 202 Views added 1 year ago
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Pebbles on a beach …
as old as time —
as young as time…
passionate limestone…
passionate sandstone…
passionate gem burning…
pulsating, quivering…
cool/
(like the fiery diamond …
in celestial glow)/
warm/
(like the earthy carbon …
in... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 397 Views added 1 year ago
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JMC Proverb:
“Ben di trih wen it yong, kaaz wen it uol it a goh brok.”
English Translation:
“Bend a tree while it is young, because when it is old, it will certainly break.”
Meaning:
“Bring up a child in the way he should be, and when he... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 378 Views added 1 year ago
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As above so below.
Universal energy in flow.
As without so within.
The feminine and the masculine.
In fertile balance of the sphere.
Embraced by ancient hands that bear.
Humanity, while for its shell, a shield.
A mighty tortoise shell to... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 617 Views added 1 year ago
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“To My Daughter Kaleila-Maida, on the Occasion of Your Christening at Eastertide.”
My Dearly Beloved Daughter, Kaleila-Maida Ngwekhin,
I am pleased to continue the dialogue I have had with you some twelve months now. I say continue, for you... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 1,144 Views added 1 year ago
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Galaxies abound.
The universe expanding.
With no seeming end.
And a new discovery.
Of the largest universe.
Alcyoneus.
A new galaxy observed.
By astronomers.
A hundred fifty three times.
The size of our Milky Way.
This new galaxy.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 372 Views added 1 year ago
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The eyes never lie.
Their flutter gives directions.
Just follow the blinks.
And, like a lie detector.
Jekyll will unmask his... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 213 Views added 1 year ago
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All my grandchildren.
And all their children’s children.
Will, by reading this.
Receive important glimpses.
Of what our world was once like.
At early stages.
Of scientific wonder.
When Man was earthbound.
And dreamt of explorations.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 467 Views added 1 year ago
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Earth in reflection.
About our ancient history.
Stories of seismic impact.
That’s valuable to learn.
Of moonlike craters.
Never on earth before seen.
Claiming evidence.
Of massive ancient impact.
That shaped North America.
Earth Science... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 440 Views added 1 year ago
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The two worlds of time.
The first is material.
As for the second.
That one is spiritual.
It is the world of above.
The world of today.
That’s “olam ha-zeh “
Totally physical world.
A world of dualities.
Opposition rules this world.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 343 Views added 1 year ago
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Earthbound, but in space.
Traversing the sun.
We’re ancient astronauts,
With kinetic energy.
In active cosmic... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 225 Views added 1 year ago
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To me right is left.
So don’t ask for directions.
Too old to change now.
Is it a common problem?
It’s lasted eighty years... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 157 Views added 1 year ago
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Of mythical stuff.
Mankind’s imagination.
Since all life began.
A worldwide phenomenon.
Displayed in every human.
It’s psyche’s imprint.
In DNA embedded.
Psyche’s “fingerprint.”
Since the dawn of creation.
And always replicated.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 262 Views added 1 year ago
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PART A:
Quaere me, Deus, domine, probasti me.
Search me, O Lord, Thou hast me tried.
Guide me onward to the straight path.
For you too long have I denied.
My eloquence, O Lord, truly deceives
the hidden thoughts I with you disguise.
While... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 960 Views added 1 year ago
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Bible — a prism.
Metaphysical measure.
Of things that’s not seen.
Though some may call it schism.
From all that man can measure.
In contrast with time.
Consider eternity.
Everlasting Truth.
Where time has little meaning.
And life on earth... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 387 Views added 1 year ago
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The nature of time.
Who can answer my question.
To a hidden truth.
Time spawned by eternity.
The Bible has the answer.
Ponder on verse eight.
Second Corinthians Four.
The truth is revealed.
The world of olam ha-zeh.
How fleeting this... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 344 Views added 1 year ago
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Time so temporal.
Eternity a measure.
As a unity.
Time so illusive.
Let us now consider time.
Time so relative.
Time as a measure.
Measuring the becoming.
Of the fleeting things.
Things that we number.
Things that we can only count.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 428 Views added 1 year ago
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The nexus of life.
Contained in the opposites.
Together as ONE.
Anima and Animus.
A person and his... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 538 Views added 1 year ago
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A Divine Essence.
From some ethereal place.
Breathed: “Let there be light!”
And there was heavenly light.
Brought from above to the earth.
And this divine light.
So divinely created.
Brought hope to mankind.
For him to know right from... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 454 Views added 1 year ago
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STATEMENT:
“So talk about love.
Or perhaps even hatred.
Whatever moves you.
Share what’s brewing in your mind.
A caring soul will listen.”
RESPONSE:
“The two are wedded.
Though sometimes they are divorced.
Love may court hatred.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 558 Views added 1 year ago
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El que no tiene Dinga,
tiene Mandiga.
All carry in their veins.
Native American.
And blood of Africa.
O mejor dicho.
El que no es Dinga,
es de Mandinga.
Or better yet expressed.
Native Americans.
Carry African... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 173 Views added 1 year ago
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She possesses me.
Always haunting me in dreams.
And so I wake up.
Finding that she still haunts me.
The truth is, I am lovestruck.
How should I respond.
When I am just your shadow.
Not your persona.
I am only Mister Hyde.
Element of your... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 526 Views added 1 year ago
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Delicate fingers turn the pages of time.
Endearing all in wonder to observe.
Nimble fingers reaching out to touch the world.
Inviting all in sweet embrace, eyes soliciting:
“Share the wealth of human love.
Extend your Selves to every other... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 428 Views added 1 year ago
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A satiric tale.
Is this tale of parable.
Warped in irony.
Oh, the cruelty.
Weapons of mass destruction.
Oh, what disaster!
Oh, what a glory.
Weapons for our protection.
What satisfaction!
A voice of reason.
When will we cease from... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 468 Views added 1 year ago
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The human race of people.
A genetic pool prescribed.
Out of many, TAO says... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 274 Views added 1 year ago
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Ode to Milady:
Compelled I am by your shade.
To write about you.
Murasaki Shikibu.
About your “Tale of Genji.”
Your “Tale of Genji.”
Prosaic — with much beauty.
Compelling the lines.
Lyrically waka style.
The plot intriguingly made.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 1,278 Views added 1 year ago
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A senryu poem
About Prince Minamoto,
The renown Genji.
His life and journey
In Japan’s Heian period
In Old Kyoto.
A Golden Era.
The eleventh century;
Imperial life.
Life at the palace.
Of royal dalliances.
Genji’s romances.
The... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 2,169 Views added 1 year ago
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Seeking exposure.
Naked truth needs no clothing.
Is always blameless.
Ask Eve and Adam.
The cost of Forbidden Fruit:
The poisoned apple!
Fig leaves are dressings.
The price of eating apples.
Bearing loincloths.
A gift of Eden.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 699 Views added 1 year ago
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Man, like mustard seed,
must nourish from fertile soil,
for him to keep Faith.
In times of long drought,
even the bitter hyssop
will taste like honey.
For the naked truth
words will provide clothing,
which needs no clothing.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 209 Views added 1 year ago
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In linguistics class.
I learned this some years ago.
Thing called “Markedness.”
Sign of Signified.
Coined by Roman Jakobson.
Semiotician.
The Signifier.
Highlighting the Signified.
Subject to Object.
Man as the Subject.
A woman... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 438 Views added 1 year ago
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No school today.
Guys, let’s make hay.
What’d ya say!
It’s a holiday.
Much time to play.
We can sleep late.
Don’t watch the date.
No homework, no school.
We can make our own rule.
Not a pencil, not a book.
Guys,... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 387 Views added 1 year ago
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Large protruding eyes.
Common to tropical seas.
This fairly small ray.
Intertidal zone.
Dasyatidae her species.
At thirty meters.
Bright blue polka dots.
So showered with accolades.
Predators be warned.
Colorful stingray.
Bluespotted... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 285 Views added 1 year ago
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If all that exists
must have some kind of ending,
what is to say of Time?
Is Time a mirage?
Can Einstein quantify it?
Is it relative?
I want to know this.
Who can answer my question?
Any... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 411 Views added 1 year ago
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World of satire.
Satire of satires.
A Senryu poem.
Can you imagine.
What life would be like.
If there were no death.
Though time would still past.
People would never perish.
Life without meaning!
Without a surprise.
Imagination would... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 320 Views added 1 year ago
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Made of sterner stuff.
Image of athletic skills.
Conformed yet to disappointments,
He rose to the very top.
As a stalwart college freshman.
Earning accolades of great success.
Leaving what is still a lasting record.
Having him placed on a... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 705 Views added 1 year ago
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With public officials frequently on trial.
The Republic is admittedly livid.
So ambitiously unethically daring.
Deceptions are “righteously” incorrigibly — nastily given.
The nation experiences an ethical dip.
When we find its democracy in... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 439 Views added 1 year ago
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Marcusian stripes returned to haunt.
Syllogistic neologisms.
In a one-dimensional world.
Where is the logic of it all?
Aristotle’s fame befuddled.
Pride and Prejudice discovered.
It’s Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four.
Returned to us this... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 889 Views added 1 year ago
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Mountains may soar to the sky.
Incline themselves to the heavens.
Greeting celestial realms with joy.
Desiring only fresh air.
At peace with their heavenly abode.
Landscaping the dome above earth.
Immensely, majestically posed.
A beacon... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 277 Views added 1 year ago
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A Meditation:
The muse grants one audience.
Sacred... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 367 Views added 1 year ago
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Isology craft.
Multidisciplinary.
Business perspectives.
Technological:
A junction of many fields.
Multidisciplines.
Physics, math, language.
Involving the sciences.
Rigorous the field.
Marketed with craft.
Implementing new... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 368 Views added 1 year ago
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No longer random.
Arbitrariness replaced —
By... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 164 Views added 1 year ago
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Alpha Infinite.
A Divine A-priori.
Omega... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 279 Views added 1 year ago
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The Thing and the Thought.
The concrete and the abstract.
The Thing as a Thought.
The Thought as a Thing.
The Signifier and the Signified.
God as The Signified.
God’s image as The Signifier.
The Signifier as God The Son.
Made visible by... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 390 Views added 1 year ago
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Facing history
of those defaced
in history.
Those ghettoed
by racial segregation,
wearing badges of dishonor
imposed upon them.
Those composed badges
decomposed in history
by logistics of mass murder.
Employed by those classed;
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 629 Views added 1 year ago
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JAH-Ras-Tafari.
A righteous song of i-an-i.
Be a reggae ras-tafari-mon.
An fly away from Babylon.
Reggae music deh ya fi tan.
Let’s sing it all ovah di lan.
All nation will ovahstan.
Dat reggae is a freedom song.
Fly away from... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 446 Views added 1 year ago
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One heart to another heart.
Autistic kids are very smart.
Although their minds are off the charts.
Autistic kids are all... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 378 Views added 1 year ago
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Bidden or not ever bidden.
Harris will prevail.
In one way or another way.
Harris will not fail.
The stars have cast their horoscopes.
Harris will not quit.
Our destinies are theirs to make.
Harris will stay fit.
So let us not decide her... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 485 Views added 1 year ago
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My time with him was very brief.
A moment, and then gone.
Remembering brings me some grief.
Time stealing him anon.
In literature he looms quite high.
Never fading with time.
Leaving us all with tears to dry.
Uplifting words sublime.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 160 Views added 1 year ago
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rah an di kuk. (The raw and the cooked.)
a jumeikan rohndong. (A cultural mix.)
som kaalit tapi-a-paas. (Like a French Garbure).
wan a dem a kontri bomkin (One of them being Creole.)
an di ada fenki-fenki. (And the other with a... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 221 Views added 1 year ago
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Japanese Haiku.
Pivotal to its culture.
This three-line poem.
It highlights nature.
Spring, Summer, Winter or Fall.
Meditatively.
Its simplicity
is so uniquely Zen form;
for one’s reflection.
Haiku poetics
is Art of syllogism.
With... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 742 Views added 1 year ago
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A murder most foul.
Perspectives of truth recalled.
A Rashomon... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 286 Views added 1 year ago
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Remember in life.
Everything turned to ashes.
And as dust to... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 185 Views added 1 year ago
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I saw him on the road less taken.
The gentleman named Robert Frost.
While I was frail and quite forsaken.
He, most certainly, was not lost.
While he marched merrily with a fife.
I wore a knapsack on my back.
Burden carried from a distaff... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 1,325 Views added 1 year ago
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I entered the room and found her buried in work. There was a very intense look on her face. I saw the arching of an eyebrow, the quiver of firm lips, the narrowing of the eyes, the curling of the tongue in the jaw, the thoughtful lowering of the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 724 Views added 1 year ago
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I-Nation Ego:
Me before all other selves!
Not about the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 309 Views added 1 year ago
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Written artfully,
literature, for all of us,
is Pandora’s... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 208 Views added 1 year ago
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Human nature screened:
Inherent rascality!
So says Dr.... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 456 Views added 1 year ago
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What would Time be like
without her partner named Space?
Bereft of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 373 Views added 1 year ago
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Adam’s apple stuck —
Meaty apple of discord…
Spare rib... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 365 Views added 1 year ago
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Like a metronome…
Heartbeat, clock beat, time beating —
Nature’s pulse in sync.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 256 Views added 1 year ago
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The Magnificat.
A Tribute to her Offspring.
Miracle of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 137 Views added 1 year ago
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Mary had a lamb.
The lamb who is our Shepherd.
Its fleece white as... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 275 Views added 1 year ago
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Ah, borne of man’s ribs.
Woman preemptively scorned —
O daunting the pain!
Man dominating —
A Woman second fiddle.
Nature offended!
Ribbing a woman.
Intentionally bragging —
By keeping her down!
But she will rise up.
Employing her... – by Karl Constantine Folkes karlcfolkes@verizon.net | 47 Views added 1 year ago
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Ah, borne from man’s ribs.
Woman — preemptively scorned.
O daunting the pain!
Man — dominating…
A woman second fiddle.
Nature offended!
Ribbing a woman.
Intentionally bragging —
By keeping her down!
But she will rise up.
Employing... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 460 Views added 1 year ago
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Alpha-Omega.
Think: “Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh.”
Tensed with... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 189 Views added 1 year ago
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A Poet’s Masterpiece:
Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”
So raw, yet... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 316 Views added 1 year ago
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Synchronicity:
A-causal space-time model,
of Jung and Einstein.
Two different models:
Psychology and physics.
Two different minds
in sync from different viewpoints.
Non-continuum
in sync; now gravitating…
Relativity —
of Time and... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 400 Views added 1 year ago
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Never surrender!
And never ever give up!
Life is a struggle!
Nineteen Forty One.
World War Two haunts everywhere.
I am six years old.
The war is raging .
British soldiers guard our soil.
A schoolboy wonders.
Holstered with a gun.
My... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 1,208 Views added 1 year ago
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Joyful bells ringing.
As December comes to end.
“A Happy New... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 138 Views added 1 year ago
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Swordsman Errol Flynn.
I met him as a student.
During a... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 167 Views added 1 year ago
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Some long — and some short.
Our destiny in the stars.
Life is but a... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 317 Views added 1 year ago
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Awake, my eyes closed.
I see dancing images.
A... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 156 Views added 1 year ago
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With a soulful face,
In tandem, ever apace,
Time marches with... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 218 Views added 1 year ago
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Like a new-born babe
Is a Fed-Ex delivery
Sent home for... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 211 Views added 1 year ago
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A Poet’s Canvas.
Beaming Light out of Darkness.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 204 Views added 1 year ago
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COUNSELOR:
Do not fret and blindly stare
as if your life has suddenly come
to a halt,
thinking too much…
and even wondering
whether in some unknown manner,
it is your fault.
Life certainly has its ups and downs.
The road is always... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 136 Views added 1 year ago
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The Gift of Poets…
A dreamer’s living gold mine:
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 392 Views added 1 year ago
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Puppets on a string,
in the Adversary’s realm,
we are made robots.
Given minds and thoughts
to construct a universe.
alien to us.
Heed this warning, folks.
By mete is how he governs.
This Adversary.
By pure powers of darkness.
And not... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 283 Views added 1 year ago
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A MacDonald’s sign.
“Contactless Curbside Pickup!”
“Without Contact”... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 172 Views added 1 year ago
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Hashish-to-hashish.
Cannabis-business-in-smoke.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 171 Views added 1 year ago
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Apple is a fruit.
Fruit requires laboring.
The Fruit of the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 474 Views added 1 year ago
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Abound in Haiku.
Haunting lyric messages.
Hymnic... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 140 Views added 1 year ago
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The world in alarm.
It’s a virus gone postal.
Call it... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 374 Views added 1 year ago
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Blowing in the Wind —
A corpus turned to ashes…
Life is... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 439 Views added 1 year ago
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“Yugen” in Japan.
The experience of Awe.
Mount Fuji... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 467 Views added 1 year ago
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A paradigm shift.
Restructuring Kuhn’s model.
“Alternative Truth!”
A paradigm shift.
Truth turned upside down.
Into a mockery.
A paradigm shift.
Truth becomes now shifty.
Falsity supreme.
A paradigm shift.
The medium is the message.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 302 Views added 1 year ago
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A Phoenician War Cry:
“8-11-5-2-9!”
Eyeing... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 267 Views added 1 year ago
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Portuguese giant.
Heteronymous poet.
Mercurial... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 388 Views added 1 year ago
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Time and Space,
Like Mind and Thought…
The two inseparable.
Space and Mind,
Like Thought and Time…
The two impenetrable.
Time relative in Space.
Space bending Time…
The two embrace each other.
Mind harboring Thought.
Thought edifying... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 216 Views added 1 year ago
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A pastor downstairs.
Reviewing publications.
Martin Luther... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 171 Views added 1 year ago
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My pen shall sally.
Henceforth, no more poetry.
Read between the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 134 Views added 1 year ago
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A myopic view.
Telescopically seen.
Your lenses of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 236 Views added 1 year ago
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The couple’s arrived!
World in Great Expectation.
“No Room at the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 151 Views added 1 year ago
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Stethoscope at heart.
The heart beats with a rhythm.
Like the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 210 Views added 1 year ago
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Kuya, awah gwaan?
A warm Jamaican greeting.
Lyrically... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 237 Views added 1 year ago
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Learning something new.
A teacher is a student.
From the kids in... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 177 Views added 1 year ago
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A thought engendered.
The Life of Death is deathless.
TAOIST... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 164 Views added 1 year ago
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The Tao Te Ching.
Like “Eyeh-Asher-Eyeh.”
Both are... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 325 Views added 1 year ago
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Poet “El Cortés”
in courtship with “El Otro.”
Latina tango!
The tango of life
in search of knowing one’s Self;
the Self of psyche.
The Self of wholeness.
The Self of our completion;
of our body and our soul.
Body and one’s soul,
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 174 Views added 1 year ago
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Self-employed by me.
Jawohl, Auseinselbstsetzung.
My Gemini... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 217 Views added 1 year ago
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Epitomizes…
Irony in literature —
“Great... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 267 Views added 1 year ago
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She haunts their village.
Spritely dressed in long white robe.
Ibaloi... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 260 Views added 1 year ago
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Zero is like DAO
Empty yet full
Full in its emptiness
A balance to all numbers.
The art of numbers
Holding ancient mysteries
Elegant in formation.
Zero is profound
Element of all numbers
Rounded or unrounded
Ordinate or... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 206 Views added 1 year ago
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Electrodes attached.
I am in a deep coma.
Medically drugged.
They have me wired.
Electrical impulses.
My scalp excited!
My head’s in a fog.
Like a vapory night mist.
Brain waves on fire!
Brain waves firing.
They have a life of their... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 131 Views added 1 year ago
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Electrodes attached.
I am in a deep coma.
Medically drugged.
They have me wired.
Electrical impulses.
My scalp excited!
My head’s in a fog.
Like a vapory night mist.
Brain waves on fire!
Brain waves firing.
They have a life of their... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 268 Views added 1 year ago
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Myanmar at war.
The junta shows no mercy.
The nation... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 141 Views added 1 year ago
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A Burmese princess,
is she, my “Doe Doe” sweetheart;
my partner of life.
With maiden name PU,
she manifests the DAO;
reflecting it as mirror.
By simply being,
without the need of acting;
with sincere presence.
Giving, not taking,
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 173 Views added 1 year ago
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Basho comes at night.
With haiku recitation.
I perk up and... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 341 Views added 1 year ago
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Life has its reason.
Nations rise and Nations fall.
Life has its own... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 599 Views added 1 year ago
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Life has its reason.
Nations rise and fall.
Let this be... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 316 Views added 1 year ago
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Life is but a stage.
The Academy Awards!
Exits,... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 222 Views added 1 year ago
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The genetic pool.
A human race of people.
Out of many,... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 388 Views added 1 year ago
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Life is a tall tale.
Full of sound, raging fury.
It is vanity.
Acts of vanity.
Vanity of vanities.
All is vanity.
Two philosophers.
Both Shakespeare and Solomon.
Cut from the same thread.
Threading together.
Their poetry of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 714 Views added 1 year ago
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Bees seeking nectar.
I stare, looking at them.
Ignorantly stung.
Newspaper crumpled.
“Bring it to me, baby son!”
“Paper old, daddy!”
Searching for glasses.
Oh, I am getting old.
It’s on my forehead!
Chipmunks digging holes.
Their... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 242 Views added 1 year ago
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Behold, the dreamer dreameth !
Composing chamber music.
From deep recesses of the mind,
Emerging something rustic .
Nocturnal nocturnes in my dreams,
Languido e rubato.
They come to me like rapid streams,
Expressively obbligato .
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 203 Views added 1 year ago
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I see through
the prism of my imagination.
And I wonder:
Is that how everyone sees?
Is there a Way,
another Way of seeing?
How does the Tao see?
From what prism does the Tao view
the world?
Is Tao archetypal ?
The archetypal image of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 935 Views added 1 year ago
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The seeker’s dilemma
Is for Tao, Joy.
Where mortals find hindrance,
The Tao sees ploy.
For what seems poor action,
No pleasure, but pain,
For Tao Te Ching’s Teachings,
Is wisdom to... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 318 Views added 1 year ago
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Ineffable is that which defies all
imagination.
Non-action, yet leaving nothing
undone.
Truth definitively expressed,
yet un-manifested.
Appearances revealed as images
of the mind.
Order and chaos, the universal posture
of Maya.
A... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 312 Views added 1 year ago
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Christianity is the process.
Revelation is the goal.
The pilgrim with a new mold.
A mold of discovery
of the true nature of Self;
of our image and our likeness.
By alchemy of fire,
a fire of transformation,
of water and of spirit…
we... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 181 Views added 1 year ago
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I AM.
I AM a tense.
I AM a divine tense.
I AM a divine tense of prescience.
I AM a divine tense of prescient wisdom.
I AM a divine tense that is utterly immense.
I AM a divine tense of heavenly omnipotence.
I WAS.
And I AM.
And I SHALL... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 239 Views added 1 year ago
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That Christianity is illogical
Is what makes it logical
In a serenely unfathomable
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 223 Views added 1 year ago
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Take the path where the river flows.
Immerse yourself in its softness.
Nurture that which bends without breaking.
Glide with the wind; sail effortlessly.
Clear your mind from wandering thought.
Hear that which is silent to others.
In... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 139 Views added 1 year ago
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The sage makes a Eureka.
His wisdom is a folly.
A Socratic... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 146 Views added 1 year ago
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Seeds sowing.
Water flowing.
Soil nourishing.
Cocks crowing.
Farmers toiling.
Crops reaping.
Women harvesting.
Grains reaping.
Chickens feeding.
Blackbirds chirping.
Morning bells ringing .
Schoolgirls...
– by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 155 Views added 1 year ago
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At the wake
A lover weeps.
Tears on her cheeks.
No time to fake.
People in mourning…
He died while a-courting.
Much anger provoking.
Here, no one him scorning.
The church bells are tolling.
The service is now over.
The casket with... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 160 Views added 1 year ago
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PART A:
Trees blossom.
Trees nourish.
Just as people
Everywhere.
Trees breed shoots.
Trees seek roots.
Just as people
Everywhere.
Trees fall,
Short or tall.
Just as people
Everywhere.
Trees live.
Trees die.
Just as people
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 195 Views added 1 year ago
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I dreamt I was a journeyman
On The Narrow Road to the Deep North,
In Honshu Island, north of Shikoku.
Across the Inland Sea,
I came across a sacred place,
Lofty Mount Fuji.
In Shiga Prefecture, there by Lake Biwa,
There by the rippling... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 857 Views added 1 year ago
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How can it be overrating
The beauty of creating
A new thought now expressed
Affectionately possessed
Consumed by you, impressed?
The Waka art is courtly,
Lyrically and sportily.
It’s meter all the sweeter
With lines compactly neater
Than... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 235 Views added 1 year ago
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Voices chanting sutras,
Hymnic lyrical sutras.
Other voices weaving,
Weaving Kama sutras.
Cherry blossoms ripening,
Youthful eyes — delighting.
Monks at holy shrines;
Bowing.
Rosaries prayerfully…
Signing…
Geisha maids performing.
Art... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 226 Views added 1 year ago
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I danced with Calliope last night,
while playing musically.
She with the harp, me with the flute.
I danced with her while dreaming.
‘Twas by the banks of Egypt’s Nile
that she and I were courting.
Anuket, Goddess of the Nile,
the two of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 776 Views added 1 year ago
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I lay in bed and think of this:
A poet has two voices.
The one he writes with gravitas,
the other of his muse.
The one expressed in syntax text,
with surface structures clear,
subject and predicate defined.
The parts of speech are known,
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 480 Views added 1 year ago
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The ethics of censorship,
Should it be partisan,
Made a political spectacle?
A spectator’s mockery,
(Addison and Steele be grieved!).
A bourgeois public spectacle.
A constitutional mess —
Let none of us digress:
Public officials as... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 420 Views added 1 year ago
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A Reading:
What divine fervor drives my quill?
Ask Diotima, priestess of Hellenic world.
She will tell you it is Love.
She will declare to you quite solemnly:
It is The Poetics of Becoming.
It is the creative umbilical drive.
It is the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 320 Views added 1 year ago
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What if I were a shadowless man,
marvelous work none could see,
no cameras that me could scan,
a hideous sight ‘twould be!
Would you my company try to seek,
or dodge me like a bullet?
Would you consider me a freak,
put away in some closet?
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 859 Views added 1 year ago
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The more I read about this tale,
The more my poems seem so pale.
Not shining bright for your delight,
A master’s poems out of sight!
You must consider great the craft,
A poet tinkering with a draft.
To turn this draft into an art,
From... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 355 Views added 1 year ago
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My beloved children,
Hear ye this.
Listen and obey:
The River of Wisdom
courses the entirety
of my Holy Word.
From my First Testament
to my Second.
Discover its source.
Pursue its tributaries.
Be eternally quenched
by its flowing waters.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 237 Views added 1 year ago
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Do not be flustered if you find
mercurial messages in my lines.
Born under sign of Gemini,
at cusp of water and of moon.
I am the betwixt and the between.
Hermetic sulphur quivering,
metaphysically simmering —
A trinity of Mercury.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 184 Views added 1 year ago
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You must remember this:
The bliss,
The little child you loved to kiss,
The baby born to soothe
your heart.
From whom you thought you’d
never part.
While pain is fresh, your eyes
will weep.
Yet this, the memory you
must keep.
That this... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 115 Views added 1 year ago
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I see myself as a metaphysical poet, most of my poems engaging the inquisitive reader, unhindered by any fear of inquisition, to look beyond the veil of extroversion, and to dare to peek into Pandora’s Box, into Pandora’s Golden Treasure, and... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 350 Views added 1 year ago
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Amidst the grime and dirt
there’s merriment and mirth.
Children’s hands with mud and dirt
giving life a new rebirth.
Their whimpering and scampering
not ever ever dampening
chances to rip and tear a toy.
For adults, something horrible
to destroy!... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 573 Views added 1 year ago
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Gone now, and yet forever here to stay,
a giant among us, a soldier on display.
This folklore hero, patriot.
A veteran of the wars.
A statesman of the nation…
Overcoming many bars.
His immigrant descent not hindering ascent.
Ever toiling... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 1,128 Views added 1 year ago
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The teller of the tale
speaks not in tenses:
Present, Past, or Future.
The reader, thus…
who dwells on these,
may comprehend
The Piper’s Song
and never grasp
the tune
in which the melody
is... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 850 Views added 1 year ago
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The spawn of Twitter
a hashtag’s no quitter,
dauntingly persistent,
steadfastly consistent,
leaving none resistant,
forever existent…
A social media spawn,
not requiring much brawn.
Its audience impassioned,
fixated attention,
synaptic retention.... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 132 Views added 1 year ago
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I saw her stroll before my eyes,
A royal monarch establishing ties,
Parading at Sabina Park.
The glamorous scene was far from stark.
A royal monarch from afar,
Her royal consort like some tsar,
Waving their hands in jubilee,
Children... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 483 Views added 1 year ago
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Did not Carl Jung, in his meditation of “The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious,” once say:
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order, in all caprice a fixed law, for everything that works is grounded in its... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 213 Views added 1 year ago
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To know one’s culture
is to reveal its myths;
and its legends.
To discover another’s,
is to revel
in its myths,
and its legends.
To know yet another,
and another…
Is to begin to discover
the common thread,
which links us all…
as... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 416 Views added 1 year ago
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How can the part comprehend
the whole of which it is a part?
A part apart —
from the whole…
that, being blinded by its own
centrality…
as an individualized part,
is constrained to discover
in its eternal pursuit
perchance the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 317 Views added 1 year ago
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If we do not stare, we may yet see.
We may yet comprehend
The Alpha and the Omega —
We do not know at what point
the circle is complete,
or where it begins.
This we know:
The circle can never be truly perceived,
be ever truly discerned…... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 318 Views added 1 year ago
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Meditate, O wandering one
upon Thyself,
upon thy inner Self.
Open your inner vision
and observe.
Despite your outer vision of an outer world
obverse,
a greater world of possibilities…
of possibilities deep within
awaits you—
It is a zealous world
of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 209 Views added 1 year ago
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Learning once begun
Is never really done.
Experiencing it is fun
Living under the sun.
(I hope you like this pun.
Let’s keep it on the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 147 Views added 1 year ago
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It takes two hands
to make a whole.
Yours grasping mine
to achieve the goal.
Human hearts to... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 134 Views added 1 year ago
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It takes two hands
to make a whole.
Yours grasping mine
to achieve the goal.
Human hearts to... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 153 Views added 1 year ago
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The
Heart
Acknowledges
Neighborly
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 138 Views added 1 year ago
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What if I like Rudyard Kipling’s
quest
to keep his head about him
without rest
while others, untrusting of selves
might doubt;
and in their doubting prance
about —
and in their pouting rant and rave
without abate,
unmindful of the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 246 Views added 1 year ago
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What if I like Rudyard Kipling’s
quest
to keep his head about him
without rest
while others, untrusting of selves
might doubt;
and in their doubting prance
about —
and in their pouting rant and rave
without abate,
unmindful of the viciousness
of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 214 Views added 1 year ago
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Lest we ever forget,
Lest we sometimes regret,
Lest we fail to be kind,
Lest we fail to love our brother,
Lest we not embrace our sister,
Lest we not hug one another,
Let us sing with our hearts.
Celebrate the Fine Arts.
For music brings... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 204 Views added 1 year ago
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The Complementary Function of Dreams: A Preface
“The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that reestablishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium. That is what I call the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 1,294 Views added 1 year ago
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What is the future of democracy
in a world where only demagogues rule?
What is the future of humanity
in a world where lies of moguls
to some seem cool?
Where double talk Orwellian
mesmerizes some — media included
into mock rebellion.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 237 Views added 1 year ago
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My Dear Fellow Earthlings
of all races and all creeds.
I bid you greetings;
And my blessings
I extend to you all.
Heartfelt blessings with much joy,
I lay upon you, all my brethren;
with my gracious love and bounty,
I’ve been reaching... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 180 Views added 1 year ago
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How can the archetype of The Original
Of the Original Primary Form be known
How can it ever be discovered
When as phenomenon it remains hidden.
When it is discerned only in images
Only in the imagination of the beholder
Only in the replica... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 497 Views added 1 year ago
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So let the love game begin
It’s a match with a win
Pray, let the love game begin
From without and within.
Thru thick and thru thin
A love match to score
With ones we adore
With Eros asleep.
His lover a peek
How curious she seems
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 644 Views added 2 years ago
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Awake before you go to sleep
you dare not at me take a peep.
Hot-tempered I be with friend or foe
and still you court me head to toe.
Asleep in darkness yet I shine.
My eyes are open all the time.
When you are cold I give you heat.
When... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 224 Views added 2 years ago
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You’ve often heard it said,
in bold Socratic dialogue;
Plato’s Republic notwithstanding,
proverbially announced:
“Necessity is the mother
of invention.”
Nay, I declare,
proverbially and aphoristically:
“Creativity is the mother
of... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 234 Views added 2 years ago
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Exile is nice
because you get
boiled rice.
Ackee and salt fish
make a good dish.
Breadfruit and banana
which have iron
make you fit
to fight a lion.
Dasheen and dash out.
And you sing and shout.
Alleloup, alleloup!
And you drink your... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 215 Views added 2 years ago
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The You.
a counterpoint
to the I;
to subjective I…
the You…
considered..
considered contextually
as The Object;
as the object
of subjective I.
yet a partner to the I;
seeking partnership.
ever seeking partnership
the You, and... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 314 Views added 2 years ago
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I
one word
that evokes me
the center point
the centerpiece
of the persona
the centerpiece
and the target
a bullseye
a dot
a focal point
encircled
by its own self
I
a beginning
and perhaps
an ending
a Redeye
of the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 315 Views added 2 years ago
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Awareness as phenomenon
requires consciousness
which itself is unconscious
of its own unconscious state,
which is conscious of its conscious... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 209 Views added 2 years ago
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To the world of physics,
Nothing matters more
Than that which is all Matter.
As well we know,
Humanity is Matter.
Matter composed of Mass —
Potential and kinetic.
Both infinite and finite.
The parts compose the whole.
The whole reveals the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 246 Views added 2 years ago
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She gave me life, she gave me breath.
She gave me all that I could ask for.
(She gave me of her utter self.)
She cared for me throughout the years.
Through life and sorrow —bitter tears.
I knew that she was growing old.
When first I saw... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 218 Views added 2 years ago
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In search of Self I looked into the mirror and saw two staring eyes
They glanced at me and threatened my demise
Informing me without speaking that I was not wise.
“The foolish man in searching sees only his reflection
He looks about him... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 726 Views added 2 years ago
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Nor rain, nor storm, nor fiery flame
Obliterates your awesome stature
Timed in years, timeless in cultural space
Recording and reporting a spiritual legacy
Embracing and elevating human souls.
Deepening and awakening archetypal... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 203 Views added 2 years ago
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Sibling love is unasked
Refreshing, never masked
Comes from the heart
E’en when apart
Does not fear or fret
Offers no real threat
Is sincere and so endears
Thrills us all with wholesome... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 144 Views added 2 years ago
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The Wheel of Life
Has no beginning
And no ending.
And yet within this numinous wheel
We in petty imagination
Create a sene of Time…
A sense of Space
With a seeming Present
With a seeming Past.
With a seeming Future
Where dreams come... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 429 Views added 2 years ago
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Dearly Beloved, Lord Jesus
Who do people say that thou art?
Thou art indeed The Hidden one
Thou art The Christ Resident
In the very depths of the human Soul
The Selbst of the Personal Unconscious
And thy Father — in Heaven
Pray, tell... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 244 Views added 2 years ago
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In worldwide vogue a social mask
Unmasking innate Malthusian dispositions
Fear of “The Other” repressed…
Alas, now boldly superimposed
A human masquerade
Projected and personified
Sanitized in public as “The New Norm”
Received as “Social... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 156 Views added 2 years ago
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And God wept!
His tears
Became
The salt of earth…
A sea of chemical solution!
And thus
He made the world
His own laboratory
And made Himself
The Alchemist.
So that
The world
Was made of Alchemy
That man might be
Confused.
... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 325 Views added 2 years ago
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People often ask: “Where does God come from?” I discern metaphysically, that the answer must be this: “Out of Oneness; out of Singularity.”
Interestingly enough, once we, as a human species, stop meditating, once we, as presumed Homo Sapiens,... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 322 Views added 2 years ago
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I took an ice block from a fridge
and felt its hardness at its ridge.
The warm air mingling with the cold
transformed that ice block and its mold.
After a while the ice began to flow
now turned, alas, into a liquid glow.
Placed in a pan upon the... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 140 Views added 2 years ago
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I took an ice block from a fridge,
and felt its hardness at its ridge.
The warm air mingling with the cold,
transformed that ice block and its mold.
After a while the ice began to flow;
now turned, alas, into a liquid glow.
Placed in a pan... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 253 Views added 2 years ago
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Persecuted ‘Spare.’
Prince Harry, in his own words.
Monarchy exposed.
The Prince declared as Pauper.
A ‘Pauper’ remaining Prince.
No arch rivalry befalls this prince.
His legacy is made of sterner stuff.
Unquestioned royalty enough.
So... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 539 Views added 2 years ago
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Seeking outward for the temple
We find it to be the dwelling place
Of sinners.
Seeking inwards for the temple
We find its holiness
In every human... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 212 Views added 2 years ago
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To become or not to become
That which we were divined to become.
That is the eternal question
That begs for an... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 316 Views added 2 years ago
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Holiness is that which
in its finite state
is of infinite magnitude
and in its infinite state
is absolutely... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 172 Views added 2 years ago
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Holiness is that which in its finite state is infinite
And in its infinite state is... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 134 Views added 2 years ago
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Who then shall I love,
If hatred surrounds me everywhere?
Whom shall I forever
And forever endear?
Whom shall I with eternal love,
Display my heart without fear?
It is to thee who gave me
Breath and life.
It is to thee who cares for... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 309 Views added 2 years ago
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Who then shall I love
If hatred surrounds me everywhere?
Whom shall I forever
And forever endear?
Whom shall I with eternal love
Display my heart without fear?
It is to thee who gave me
Breath and life.
It is to thee who cares for me
Throughout... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 154 Views added 2 years ago
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Come Dionysus, let us entertain our frogs
as we prepare once more the great descent
into our darkened labyrinth.
There, our darkness is our light…
Not haunted by the need for space or time
we find eternal peace
in the company of spritely poets.... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 209 Views added 2 years ago
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I met you on the journey in the middle of the path where like Dante courting Beatrice
you gave me cause to pause,
to stop and ponder with you
the many joys of life:
How nature pours her blessings
on every single soul,
how Wisdom speaks with... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 331 Views added 2 years ago
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Behold the parable of life:
Vanity, vanity, vanity!
All of life is but a dream:
A dream of hidden treasures.
And the dream, alas, must die…
As all dreams surely die…
At the rising of the Sun…
At the rising of the Self…
The hidden Self... – by Karl Constantine FOLKES | 225 Views added 2 years ago
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